Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for this opportunity. It’s been four years since I last asked questions, so I thought I’d give it a shot.
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I’d like to reflect on Mr. Beaulieu’s question on the youth. This Legislative Assembly, the previous Assembly, and as we move forward I’ve heard over and over about the youth as the most priority within this government. I’d like to focus with a twist on what we can do even further into the communities.
I can speak more specifically to my region and that will be the community of Behchoko. It does reflect on other communities as well. I’d like to focus on the number of break-ins for the last several weeks now, almost every weekend. We have a big facility in Behchoko, but it hasn’t been touched for a number of years. It’s no fault of the youth that the building is not being renovated, but at the same time there is a deficit recovery plan with our government. At the same time we can’t move forward on the actual building to retrofit the building. We need to do something for the youth.
With that in mind, I’d like to ask the Premier-to-be what is their overall plan to deal with these matters at hand where some of the communities are in deficit, they don’t have a decent facility for the youth, but there is a plan in place to have a recovery deficit plan in place.
We need to think beyond innovative and creative thinking. This is what we are accountable to the Northwest Territories. I’d like to ask those candidates, we need to think beyond what we have before us. If there is a plan in place, what are your overall objectives to deal with those individual communities that may have a deficit recovery plan to deal with those facilities that are badly needed?